Study portrait
Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine 1907
In fancy dress, head-and-shoulders to the left in three-quarter profile, wearing a green turban with gold trimming and an green and red scarf
Oil on board, 66.5 x 42 cm (26 ¼ x 16 ½ in.)
Inscribed lower right: In treuer Erinnerung / einer schönen Stunde / in Darmstadt / 1907 April / P.A. de László [In faithful remembrance of a pleasant encounter …]
Sitters’ Book I, opp. f. 75: Menschen so malen wie sie sind / heisst Menschen begreifen wie sie fühlen! [To paint people as they are is to understand the way they feel.] / Ernst Ludwig Großherzog v. Hessen / Darmstadt. 5. IV 07
Private Collection
In 1907 de László also painted another study-portrait of the Grand Duke [5941] and a pair of full length portraits of the sitter [5937] and his wife Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and the Rhine, née Princess zu Solms-Hohensolms-Lich [5933].
LITERATURE:
•Schleinitz, Otto von, Künstler Monographien, no. 106, Ph. A. V. László, Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1913, p. 77
•Rutter, Owen, Portrait of a Painter, London, 1939, pp. 227-30, 233, 236, 238, 245, 248, 270
•Hart-Davis, Duff, in collaboration with Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, Philip de László. His Life and Art, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2010, pp. 93-5, 97, 125
ATG 2012
Entry in Progress